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I dunno, it seems like quite a bit of the "practical theology" I encounter contorts its writing into such convoluted and abstract prose trying to mimic empirical scientific methods that it is ultimately of no practical use.

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Does anyone outside of practical theology (especially those using empirical methods of research) talk about normativity in theology? Have I walked myself into a very niche conversation?

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A strategy I've been using latley to not fall into total despair while trying to finish my PhD is to celebrate the small victories as victories. At the end of the day, I can focus on only typing 300 words, or I can celebrate that I figured something out that advances my argument.

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My kingdom for a multivitamin that doesn't give me a tummy ache.

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HYUKOH (혁오) x Sunset Rollercoaster | Y

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The pincer move of replacing workers with AI and demolishing higher ed will not liberate anyone from work or debt, but trap us in a world of low wages, unsafe and exploitative work conditions, and reduced collective power.

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Schumer I can't do anything about, but it's long past time we in Illinois replace Durbin.

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I had to do my due diligence and check, but I already knew Durbin would be on this list.

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My supervisor keeps telling me to use fewer block quotes and to break them down into my own paraphrases, but the problem is that one of my major interlocutors really knows how to turn a phrase, and there is just no way I'm going to say it better than he did.

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Wandering from room to room, shifting the shit, trying to decide where today's productive workspace will be.

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I'm happy with the quality of work I'm producing this week, but quite frustrated with the quantity and pace.

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I really wish they had put a recording of this out somewhere.

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I listened to When Am I Gonna Lose You a million times, but I really slept on this album as a whole.

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Today, a brief 10-minute handwriting session led to an important connection/breakthrough.

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Blakeley makes her (surprise) debut with the Rockford Symphony.

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TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday

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I don't mean to brag, but often when I text my friends they are so excited to hear from me they have to take several days to a week to calm themselves down so they can respond.

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Obama's signature move is going to groups of highly motivated and plugged in Dem voters and scolding them about voting.

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Presented my paper The Book Your President Reads at my third Koinonia Forum at Princeton Seminary. As always, the best theology conference in which I get to take part.

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(guy whose business is entirely government contracts) we’re going to run the government like a business

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Why do I feel enormously guilty cutting a short section from this paper that featured a quote from my supervisor?

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Thoughts on ending a conference presentation with 30 lines of poetry?

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Oops, the conference paper is already too long and I haven't finished two sections yet.

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Will I be seeing anyone at the Princeton Seminary Koinonia Forum this weekend?

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I'm doing my first fulsome engagement with Patrick Deneen in this conference paper, which I thought would be fun but is turning out to just be really sad.

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Sitting in the dark writing lit only by candlelight and the string of lights in the front room, listening to ambient drone compositions, trying to reclaim the flow state I haven't experienced since starting the PhD.

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A great way to determine if you have a sinus infection is to jump into the deep end of a pool and see if your sinus cavity tries to explode out of your eyes.

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I was watching 500 Days of Summer and Blake came in and exclaimed "oh god, why does this look so old!?"

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“Why do you do this, man of God? Why do you tell us to dare something that should not be dared, to embark on a project of a kind for which not only is success unachievable but which it is, at any rate in my view, reprehensible even to embark upon?” —Gregory of Nyssa, On the Six Days of Creation

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Writing a fun little thing. Writing can still be fun, even when the dissertation is not.

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Deborah Grice | Solitude

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When I took my first flight at 12—for a school trip and without my parents—I wasn't scared. I've never been scared of flying. But I have a flight at the end of the month and I'm legitimately worried about it.

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